The Man Booker Prize longlist was announced this week and many litbloggers have posted commentary on the selections. Per the Man Booker site: “The longlist of 19 books was chosen from 112 entries; 95 were submitted for the prize and 17 were called in by the panel of judges.”

I’m familiar with a lot of the titles, having seen them in the catalogues, but haven’t read any of them yet. I have Peter Carey’s Theft: a Love Story and Kate Grenville’s The Secret River on their way to me for review. Nadine Gordimer’s Get a Life and James Robertson’s The Testament of Gideon Mack are already on my pile for review. So now I have to have a look at the rest of the titles and decide which ones I want to try and read prior to the short list announcement on September 14 and the winner being announced on October 10.

“Man Booker Prize Longlist announced”

Lovely to find your blog via your nomination for the Book Blogger’s Book Prize and always great to find a fellow knitter.Can we swap links?I’m also reading through as much of the longlist as I can so it will be good to see what we all think.http://dovegreyreader.typepad.com